I’m a massive Graze Box fan. Like a child on Christmas morning, I skip toward the front door when I hear the postman coming every alternate Friday. *Plop!* as the box hits the doormat, *Squee!* as I grab it in my hot little hands and run off to uncover my weekend treats!

What is it about cutely packaged boxes that suddenly makes the interior of Holland & Barrett look sexy. There is nothing sexy about Holland & Barrett… or Julian Graves for that matter, probably why they went bust.

Are you one of the few remaining people on Earth who doesn’t know what a Graze box is? Allow me to enlighten you…

You pay a fee of £3.89 and for your monies, you receive a wee cardboard box delivered to your door, or office… you know, if you have one. The box contains a selection of four tasty treats, supposedly healthy (usually somewhere inbetween healthy and fattening), definitely moreish. You can log on to the website at Graze.com and tell them what you like/don’t like… even rating the previous box so that future selections are customised to your taste. Back in the day, they used to include fresh fruit and other lovely bits in their boxes but what with Royal Mail being shit and letting the fruit ferment… they had to stop all that.

There are a billion offers around for you to try your first Graze box for free, mostly because subscribers get given codes to refer friends and earn themselves money off future boxes. Here, have mine: 616XG25D for a free box*.

They’re also now doing Breakfast boxes containing four portions of suped-up porridge… usually with things like dried fruit and nuts added, plus a drizzle of honey. Yum. Again, ZXRP1YM will get you into the top-secret (not really) Breakfast Club and award you your first box for free*.

…BUT YOU’RE NOT GONNA WANT TO USE THEM!

Because look, I done did my very own Graze Box. A DIY Graze Box! And it cost not THREE POUNDS AND EIGHTY-NINE PENCE. Oh no, it cost a mere £1.67** and contains lots more goodies!

My favourite thing from my delivered Graze boxes has always been the Florentine mix of pumpkin seeds, cranberries, and dark chocolate buttons so I knew that I wanted to replicate this in my own version (bottom middle). Infact, this worked out as the most expensive pot (56p), which might have something to do with the fact that I used Montezuma’s Giant Dark Chocolate Buttons (om nom nom).

Garibaldi biscuits (top left) are a much-neglected biccie in my opinion! On Weight Watchers, you can have three for 3PP… plus they’re pretty inedible without a cuppa but perfect for dunking, making them a brilliant mid-afternoon, tea-break snack.

I wanted an even spread of sweet vs. savoury, so also included a mini-flapjack bite from Asda bakery (top middle)… now I just need to resist the temptation not to polish the rest of them off!

Leila’s passion for breadsticks got me thinking about their potential for grazing on (geddit?), so I picked up some mini wholewheat breadsticks, a jar of tomato chutney, and a Babybel Light (top right). It’s like a cheese and pickle sarnie in skinny form… um, sort of.

The bottom left selection is another for my sweet tooth. It features a broken meringue nest and yoghurt-covered dried strawberry pieces!

Finally, I included a pot with a comination of dry-roasted chickpeas and wasabi peanuts (bottom right). So spicy, so good!

Obviously the initial outlay to make your own Graze boxes is something to think about… but as an ongoing thing, this box worked out at £1.67 for the lot. As far as quantities go… my Florentine mix weighs in 40g, only 1g less than the Graze version… but do you know the really cool thing? Mine is 5PP… theirs is 6PP!

Would you make your own Graze box? What would you put in it?

* both codes are affiliated, I get £1 off my next box if you use them (I think). Please don’t use them because now I have a cupboard-full of seeds and dried fruit to use up!

13 Responses to “A DIY Graze Box for less than half the cost!”

I love your box actually. It looks so much more fresh and interesting PLUS I love Garibaldi biscuits! I’m curious though. How long are you supposed to graze on these for? A day? A week? Sorry, a little clueless 😛

I really enjoyed Graze box, I’ve un-subbed because after tasting some things of course they were eliminated to the point that I didn’t have much variation to get a box sent out oops.

The flapjacks were to die for, liking the idea of a homemade one picking what you want and it’s great for those in between snack meals. I’d have nuts, oh dried fruit at the moment me and red apples are BFFs xo

Love you’re cute version! I think it’s so worth it to just prepare it yourself and you can always stock up on multiple options, pre “package” them and you’ve got a huge variety of snacks on hand! Woopee!!

I have been getting Graze boxes for about 4 years, always loved them and they not only have great ideas (the mini puds are just amazing!) but their customer service is great.
Emmy, my 6 year old is now a member of the kids Goodybox and yesterday she recieved her very own box with her name on and never have you seen such joy over a box of food! After years of stealing mine (the flapjacks are her fave) she now gets her own!

Omnomnom. I used Graze quite a bit when they first started but found I actually quite liked making my own mixes from goodies I’d pick up in the Holland and Barretts penny sale. Not got any of these fancy little pots though…

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